The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-04-12
The Most Gigantic Ring Of
Railroad Thieves Raid
ed and Ruined.
The Gung Operated win PMS.
burs a. Fence Iil and
conducted Thcit,.
The RniiWnl Wy stcrl al the
Dead tirl--Iicr Body Indcr
Heap Oi blossoms.


tutrcut crime
LIGHl sENrENCT
NEBRASKA CRY, Neb.. Aprll ILL.,
ON January the night passenger
train on the Missouri Pacific railway
was thrown from the track. some ten
miles from this city, aud Engineer
James Dewitt was instantly killDd
and II number were injured und prop
crtv was destroyed to the extent of
$4,000 James Bell and DAVID lloa-
man were arrested tor the crime aud
indicted for murder in tho first do.
gree. lluillGan WAS placed ON trial
rs principal on "wednesday last. Bell
was plac, on the stand, when he
weakened aud testified that Hoffman
did the job while lac sat near too
drunk to take part. The case was
given To the jLry saturday evening.
They returned in twenty minutes
with II verdict OF murder In the first
degree. Bell was convicted aud sen.
fenced to ten years in the pcuitcn-
tiary.
AN IMPORTANT RAID
PITrsBURG, April IA gang of
train robbers on tho Panhandle sys-
ten has bcon detected. The first mr.
rests were made about o'clock this
morning, the police surprising c:gh.
teen men at their boarding house
The men were taken at once to iail
Further arrests wcro made between
o'clock and daylight, when forty six
men, all railroad employees cohduc-
tor, brnkcmcn, lircm"u aud engineers
were placed behind the bnr- In
speaking of the arrest, u prominent
officer Of the Panhandle road -nys:
"tor three ycnrs past the Panhandle
road has bcon
sNSTFMAICALiN Romtp.
Cars ON sidings ana ears IN moving
trains were broken open aud goods
stolen, including every description of
merchandise. II j. estimated that ut
least $500 600 worth OF goods has been
aiken, for which tho company had 10
pay. In August last, we got clue.
Detectives were employed who fol-
lowed up every scent When every
thing wa4 ready, We decided to make
move Mi nlung the line, from Co
unbus TO l'itt,burg, ana . o'rlocH
this morning WA, iiNoh 10 strike tho
blow About eighty warrant. woro
issued Tor men IN l'ittrburg. can't
tell how many for other places, hut II
was at every point along the line. IL
viii run up into hundreds. ltls
THE BlGGEsr TmNG
Of the KIND that over happened in
littsburg, or ia railroad matters IN
the world, for nothing like il ever
happened before. We suspect out
sdcrs being implicated with tho rob
bcr-, but know nothing positive"
EARLY one morning, some months
ago, nt sheridan station, near this
city, u train was stopped for water.
An attack wa mnio ON The crew and
ia the tight u fireman wa killcu. Two
cars were brolich Op"u and their con
tents stolen. Baker is accused OF
lirIng the shot that hillod tho ire
map, and thi, Is understood to be one
OF thirty.cight charges against him.
ANOlIItK CASE
John II. Hampton, attorney for the
pennsylyanln Railroad company, said:
'In September there were eighty
crews Of freight trains on the l'anhan-
die railroad, coming into Pitt7burg,
and no less than s"ycn'y.lve were
found to be crooked lh' crews
consist OF II conductor, llagnan ana
two brakcmcn. In most OF the crews
nll the men were involved. The
statement that the cngincers and tho
r.,.,,,,,, ,,,.,,n ,,tt tyaI nm in the TOD-
urcIhch were '''Nc' Wy !" '"' Wv
bery -
Us "h'N"'
Not single one is involved, The
goods were obtained DIV the moves
in various ways In many lnstauces
stats were broken Ia others ,rp'.' TUlcs
were cut in the cnd OF luc cars holi